The Feast of 7 Fishes: Christmas Eve

So Christmas Eve is a big food holiday in my family. We always have hosted it and we put on a somewhat traditional 7 fish Italian dinner. There is usually way too much food to eat and in years past a lot of it was fried. This year we strayed a little bit from that, but not by much, and we kept true to the tradition of 7 fishes. Now being a girl that doesn’t actually eat fish, I usually tend to dread this dinner, but this year I forced myself to try almost everything. Let me take you through our menu and tempt your visual palate with some pictures of what we ate. My family yells at me for taking pictures of everything so hopefully you all truly enjoy them!

The menu:

Hot Antipasto Course:

mushrooms stuffed with seafood stuffing

stuffed calamari

mussels in a garlic white wine sauce (a personal favorite)

fried smelts (fresh sardines)

salmon cakes

homemade mozzarella sticks

Cesar Salad with Homemade Dressing

there were anchovies in the dressing

Pasta Course

Crab sauce with angel hair pasta

and plain marinara

Dessert

Cannoli cake

cherry and walnut pound cake

brownie bites with orange mints on top

jubilee roll

peanut butter balls

thumbprint cookies

pizzelles

peanut butter blossoms

* I apologize for the pictures being all weird but the blog didnt want to cooperate and I didnt feel like fighting